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THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1936.
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THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM
THE, DALLAS POST will lend its support and offers the use of its
columns to all projects which will help this community and the great
rural suburban territory which it serves to attain the following major
improvements:
"1. Construction of more sidewalks for the protection of pedestrians in
Kingston township and Dallas.
2. A free library located in the Dallas region.
3. Better and adequate street lighting in Trucksville, Shavertown,
Fernbrook and Dallas.
4, Sanitary sewage disposal system for Dallas.
5. Closer co-operation between Dallas borough and surrounding
townships. ‘ ;
6. Consolidated high schools and better co-operation between those
that now exist.
7. Adequate water supply for fire protection.
8. The formation of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men
and home owners interested in the development of a community con-
sciousness in Dallas, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook.
9. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connecting
with the Sullivan Trail at Tunkhannock.
A THOUGHT FOR THIS WEEK
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some
people twice the time of others.
DoucLAs JERROLD
Telephones For Public Schools
One of the reasons the Back Mountain is back so far is because so many
of its public officials and public schools are without telephones.
It is not so much our desire to promote the cause of the telephone com-
panies as it is our amazement at the slowness with which some of our citizens
catch on to new ideas that arouses us on the telephone question.
property and life.
A surprising number of public officials in this section, however, remain
deaf to such argument and insist upon making any kind of communication with
schools or township supervisors as difficult for the taxpayer as possible.
We would be in favor of making the ownership of a telephone a prime re-
quisite of every candidate for public office. After all, when the people elect
him they deserve an opportunity to talk to him when they want without camp-
ing on his doorstep until he comes home.
Neither Lake Township nor Kingston Township school districts seem to be
suffering financially because they have a telephone in as a convenience for ci-
tizens and an aid in speeding up school business. In view of their survival un-
der the strain of paying for a telephone other school districts might now safely
experiment with the idea.
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The Nuisance Parties
There seems to be a possibility now that local voters will be using paper
ballots instead of voting machines this year because of the number of “nuisance
parties” which have filed at Harrisburg.
The “fears” of the county officials that the voting machines may not be
serviceable may be father to the wish. If such is the case the public should
raise some objection to the nuisance of this party “pre-empting’’ business.
Aside from the Union Party, which seems unlikely to poll enough votes
to justify its existence, there is no clear reason for any of the new, independent
“parties. They are not properly parties. Most of them are devised as tricks in
some sort of political strategy.
In many instances party names are pre-empted to head off prospective
movements, and not infrequently for the definite purpose of confusing the
voters. Some of them, even, are designed for their “nuisance value” in the
hope that it may be cashed in.
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Can You Visualize A Billion?
By June 30, 1937, it is estimated by Wemocratic statisticians, the national
debt will be approximately 43 billion, 652 million dollars.
Expressed in dollar bills, piled one on top of the other, this debt would
extend 2,500 miles into the air.
Time alone will tell whether this alarming expenditure will turn out to be
a good investment or an extravagant waste. Certainly it is large enough to
justify the fears of most people and call for a more detailed reckoning ‘than
the Administration has yet given.
The spending by the present Administration at the rate of about $2.12 for
every dollar the tax collectors bring in is speeding United States into the red
at the rate of more than ten million dollars a day.
Someone has figured that a pile of 275 one-dollar bills is an inch high.
One million dollars in bills then would stand 303 feet high. One billion dollars
would reach up 303,000 feet and 10 billions, 784 million dollar bills would
tower 618 miles.
Try to visualize 5,888 piles of dollar bills each as high as the Washing-
ton monument.
Try to think of a line of dollar bills, laid end to end and stretching around
the world more than 43 times.
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If you can mentally picture that much money you will have some idea
of what the present Administration has already appropriated for government
~ spending this year alone.
It would seem to be time for a careful reckoning if voters are expected
to place their trust in the Democrats again.
Any efforts toward economy on the part of Dallas Borough or Dallas
Township or Lehman Township schools is certainly commendable and this
newspaper is the first to applaud such policies but we cannot agree with any
arguments that doing without telephones in a high school is up-and-coming.
It must be obvious by now that a telephone is a tremendous advantage in
speeding up communications between people; that it frequently saves consider-
able time for the people who use it, and that in emergencies, such as fires, ac-
cidents or sudden illnesses, the possession of a telephone occasionally saves
WASHINGTON
LETTER
The political campaign is on with a
vengeance. Both major parties’ presi-
dential candidates are taking advan-
tage of opportunities to put themselves
and their views before the country.
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President Roeseveit has finished a
tour of the drought states. Alfred M.
Landon has made his initial stump
speeches in the FEastern states. He
plans more.
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As the campaign gets into high a
new, issue is building itself up for de-
bate in Congress. It centers around the
strike which has closed down the Post-
Intelligencer . and deprived Seattle,
Washington, of its famous morning
paper for the first time in 71 years.
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The Seattle strike was called; theo- = -
_ retically, because a photographer and
"a dramatic critic were discharged. The
American Newspaper Guild said they
were fired for union activities; the
newspaper's management insisted that
was not true.
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Nevertheless, there were several
other unions in the Post-Intelligencer.
The linotypers and printers and press-
men and mailers had contracts with the
newspaper at wages and hours satis
factory to them. They wanted to stay
at work. But when Seattle’s Central
Labor Council listed the Post-Intelli-
gencer as “unfair” and posted hun-
dreds of pickets around the newspaper
plant, even the men who wanted to
couldn’t go to work.
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The Seattle situation revives Wash-
ington discussion of a couple of pre-
vious statements by both President
Roosevelt and Candidate Landon. In
settling, the 1934 automobile contro-
versy, Roosevelt ‘declared that it was
the duty of government to protect em-
ployes against coercion or interference
“from any source.” Landon, in agree-
ment with his party’s platform, has tak-
en the same attitude and used those
same words barring coercion of work-
ers “from any source.”
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The language both candidates ap-
prove, Washington believes, certainly
would apply in the Seattle case. Pres-
ent Federal law seeks only to protect
employes from coercion by their em-
ployers. But Seattle offers an illustra-
tion of coercion by outsiders—not even
employes of the same paper—which
would be forbidden if the Roosevelt-
Landon language were added to the
law.
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In the belief that the general public,
which ultimately pays all taxes any-
way, should know what hidden assess-
ments it is paying toward the cost of
government, a growing number of man-
ufacturers are calling attention to the
hidden tax in the price of the products
they sell.
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One of the latest to adopt this mea-
sure is a New York laundry which has
begun to add a flat two cents charge
to each bundle of laundry to cover un-
employment insurance and social se-
curity costs. A nationally known bak-
ery is considering printing on the
wrapper of each loaf of bread a no-
tice that two cents of the purchase
price of the bread is going to pay the
cost of government.
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Cotton farmers must set aside seven
out of every thirty bales of cotton they
harvest to pay taxes to the government,
according to Professor Eliot Jones of
Stanford University. One bale goes for
the direct support of the executive,
legislative and judicial branches * of
government. The second bale is needed
for interest on the government debt.
wo more go for war purposes — one
for defense and the other for a bonus
to veterans of past wars. Another bale
goes for the farmer’s subsidy and the
sixth bale is needed for relief. The
seventh bale is taken to pay the cost
of WPA and PWA and other public
works relief agencies.
FIBBER McGEE SAYS:
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grapefruit...it’s round and
full of mean little squirts.
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Wherein Mr. Matthews Dis-
cusses Titled Foreigners And
Reflects Upon The Custom of
Kissing Women’s Hands.
Last week the papers recorded the
death of Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy,
aged 72, the husband of one of three
cousins of mine who, as young girls,
looked over the field of eligible Ameri-
can males and chose to marry titled
foreigners.
It is true that Amelie Rives first
married an American, John Astor
Chanler, and found him wanting. But
Margaret Rives Nichols married the
Marquis de Chambrun, and her first
cousin, Clara Longworth, married Gen-
eral Count Adalbert de Chambrun.
Both Mesdames de Chambrun, as far
as I know, have been happily married
these many years. At any rate, my
cousins have never divorced their
titled mates. :
In the days when Booth Tarkington’s
“The Man From Home” influenced
public opinion, and later when Miss
Anna Gould’s marriage to the Mar-
quis de Castellane was interpreted as a
flight of American capital to foreign
shores, American women who married
titled Europeans were generally regard-
ed as somewhat daffy romantics who
wanted to make the fairy stories of
girlhood come true in real life. The
vulgar said they were buying titles,
and perhaps some of them did. Yet
even Miss Gould, who failed to make
a go of things matrimonial with Boni
de Castellane, tried again with his
cousin, the Duc de Talleyrand-Peri-
gorde. There is, of course, something
In a name.
But not everything. Otherwise the
conclusion is that most American wo-
men of means are fools who are willing
to exchange their bank rolls for a mess
of crested tinsel. To imply that rich
girls marry for names is just about as
nonsensical as to suggest that other
people don’t marry because of names.
If this last were true, then I shouldnt
be here, and my mother’s family, a
numerous Virginia and St. Louis tribe
named Skinker, would not be crowd-
ing the earth.
Marriage is not a matter of aesthetic
phonetics. Women with money, I be-
lieve it is safe to postulate, are fairly
shrewd buyers. When it comes to the
purchase of a husband these days of
emancipation, rich gals are confront-
ed with more matrimonial merchandise
than dresses at a Macy basement sale,
and most of them still select husbands
with more care than they would an
evening frock.
Of course there are ladies who have
married Mdivanis only to find them as
attractive as a last year’s hat, but for
every former Princess Mdivani, and
they are legion, to be sure, there are
two happily married American titled
women like my cousins.
There must be some other reason
why so many wealthy women fall for
what Booth Tarkington's era would
have called “hand kissin’ furriners.”
It is my suspicion that hand kissing,
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whatever we may think of it in this
land where men are men and women
exist merely to rustle up the grub, may
be a clue to the psychology of such in-
ternational nuptials.
From all accounts, and particularly
from his obituary in the Times, Prince
Troubetzkoy must have been a very
charming and attractive and entirely
satisfactory husband. Probably hand
kissing, and the attitude which goes
with it, had a lot to do with his suc-
cess as the husband of that remarkably
beautiful young girl who startled the
editors of the Atlantic Monthly when
they discovered Amelie Rives was the
author of several brilliant short stories
she had submitted, originally, under a
masculine pseudonym.
Prince Troubetzkoy, and for that
matter, the Marquis de Chambrun and
General Count Adalbert de Chambrun,
always had plenty to keep them busy.
According to the Times, Prince Trou-
betzkoy was a ‘portrait painter of no
mean talents whose pictures now hang
in several art galleries in this country
and in Europe. The elder de Cham-
brun, now a French senator, has al-
ways been busy in politics, and the
younger has spent many years as Gov-
ernor General of Morocco. So one can-
not say these gentlemen were married
by American women who wanted to
have their husbands lead idle, pomer-
anian lives.
Foreign males, I believe, succeed as
husbands of American women chiefly
because their manners are exquisite
and thus always flattering to women.
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They also succeed because, while the
cherish a firm faith in male dominance,
they still manage to show a delicate
respect for female virtues. These are
too often derided or taken for granted
in this country of ours which seems
unable to produce many’ native sons
who can live happily with well-heeled
wives. i
“The American, I think, hélds that
the man who marries a rich girl earns ;
every penny he makes on the deal. The
European, on the other hand, seems to
think it’s nice work if you can find it.
And once he finds it, he makes sure
he keeps his job in most cases. So it is
no wonder to me that American girls,
who soon learn they can buy almost
anything they want, prefer to shop for
husbands across the water. And it is
no wonder to me that only his death in
this year of grace, 1936, terminated
the marriage of Prince Pierre Trou-
betzkoy to Amelie Rives, which was =
solemnized in 1896, forty Februaries
ago.
Hand kissers, whatever you may
think about the practice, are certainly
a lot more attractive to most women
than men like Mr. Steffano Darrigo of
Toronto who would like to win the
million dollar Millar Will Maternity
Marathon. Mr. and Mrs. Darrigo have
seventeen children, and another is on
the way. Mr. Darrigo says he hasn't
kissed Mrs. Darrigo in twenty years.
Kissing, I suppose he would say, is
just a waste of time, and time, up
there in the baby warrens of Toronto
is money.